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Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon arrive at pad 39A for launch
SpaceX rolled the first Crew Dragon spacecraft out to a Florida launch pad Thursday for final preparations ahead of a test flight to the International Space Station.
VideoLive coverage: Crew Dragon capsule returns to Earth
SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft wrapped up its five-day stay at the International Space Station at 2:31 a.m. EST (0731 GMT) Friday with a smooth undocking, then nailed an on-target splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida at 8:45 a.m. EST (1345 GMT).
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon ready for first test flight
SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft, fixed to the forward end of a Falcon 9 rocket, emerged Thursday from the company's hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the quarter-mile journey to its launch mount at pad 39A, where liftoff is scheduled early Saturday on a critical test flight before astronauts strap into the ship later this year.
Forecasters expect good weather for Crew Dragon test launch Saturday
The first official launch weather outlook issued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force meteorologists predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for the predawn liftoff Saturday of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft on a test flight to the International Space Station.
Israeli moon lander prepared for launch
The privately-funded Israeli Beresheet lunar lander is ready for its historic mission to the moon, aiming to become the first space probe to land on another planetary body without government funding.
Q&A with Opher Doron, general manager of IAI’s space division (members only)
Opher Doron leads the space division at Israel Aerospace Industries, a satellite and aviation contractor that led the industrial team behind the privately-funded Beresheet lander heading to the moon.
SpaceX files protest of NASA’s Lucy launch contract awarded to ULA
SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space.
Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and SpaceX later declared the pre-launch milestone complete in preparation for a critical test flight with a commercial crew capsule as soon as late February.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly fires engines in test
The Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on a test flight in February briefly ignited its Merlin main engines on pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday. The Crew Dragon test flight to the International Space Station is a precursor to the spaceship's first mission with astronauts later this year.
SpaceX begins 2019 with eighth and final launch for upgraded Iridium network
Ten Iridium communications satellites rode a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Friday from California in the eighth and final launch for Iridium's upgraded network over the last two years, and the first of around 18 predicted SpaceX missions planned in 2019.